After that we'll go and collect her stuff."Jean smiled at him again. "That sounds good." She stood up and went round to Moira. "You're in good hands, ...y dear. I'll wait to say goodbye until you bring me the key." She touched Moira's cheek, turned and left with Richard Smith."Thank you, my Dai, for your comfort and strength," said Moira looking up at him. She reached for his head and pulled it down for a gentle kiss."Come on then, my Moira. Let's go and get you looking lovely again."She managed. “After you used the black stone, you passed out, and I carried you up to the observatory. You have slept for hours. I was starting to worry that you might never wake, that the stone had incurred some terrible cost.”“No,” he replied, “it was just very taxing. Acting as a conduit for that kind of magic, seeing the things that I saw ... it was draining.”“What happened to you?” she asked. “All I saw was you placing your hands near the sunken star, then you seemed to freeze up, like your body had. After the fall this political bodystill tried to function, the former French Guyana, for example, cut offfrom the motherland, requested not only entrance in the UNS, but alsoformal integration in as a state of Brazil (there were historicalprecedents for that). All this was destroyed by the invasions of 10 afterthe fall and the resulting wars. The UNS was forgotten everywhere, but itseemed that something had survived in Brasilia, since the sign was wellpreserved.As I already wrote, most of the. " John knew that right now and here was not the place."Do you really want to learn how I farm?" John asked a little suspicious, "or are you here for 'other'reasons?" Ah, you caught me, actually I am here for both. It would be better if we did the work first though. Daddy has a mean scanner and out on these fields, he could detect a worm within a half a centimeter. Besides not the place for the ... uh hum ... other things" she giggled as she again rubbed his crotch, bringing him to the brink.